--- title: En de bees dey swawm'd on Brer B'ar's head, twel 'fo' he could take… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: En de bees dey swawm'd on Brer B'ar's head, twel 'fo' he could take it out'n de hole hit wuz done swell up bigger dan dat dinner-pot, en dar he swung, en ole Brer Rabbit, he dance 'roun' en sing: Who acts: B'ar, hole. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (B'ar, hole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2306:31:50 # text = En de bees dey swawm'd on Brer B'ar's head, twel 'fo' he could take it out'n de hole hit wuz done swell up bigger dan dat dinner-pot, en dar he swung, en ole Brer Rabbit, he dance 'roun' en sing: 1 En En PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 1 flat:foreign _ _ 3 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 dey dey NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 swawm swawm NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 'd ' VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 B'ar B'ar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 twel twel NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 14 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 fo for ADP IN Abbr=Yes 19 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 appos _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 out'n out'n X FW Foreign=Yes 24 dep _ _ 22 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 21 flat _ _ 23 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 25 wuz wuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 xcomp _ _ 27 swell swell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 amod _ _ 30 dan dan NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 dat dat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 32 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 dar dar NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 swung swing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 ole ole NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 43 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 47 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 48 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 roun roun NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 49 punct _ _ 51 en en ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 sing sing NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **'** | participle | | dey swawm and twel and dance roun and en sing *not said here* | | Brer B'ar's head | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | could | B'ar | head | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **hit** | past | hole | wuz | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | participle | hole *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **swell up** | infinitive | hole *not said here* | bigger dan and dat dinner pot and en ole | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient dan=Extent | | 6 | **swing** | past | B'ar | en dar *not said here* | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dar=Theme | | 7 | **roun** | | B'ar | | | | | | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/31/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/31/51/) - ↑ back to [XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/31/)